Surfactants, surface interaction

A situation that commonly occurs with food foams and emulsions is that there is a mixture of protein and low-molecular-weight surfactant available for adsorption at the interface. The composition and structure of the developing adsorbed layer are therefore strongly influenced by dynamic aspects of the competitive adsorption between protein and surfactant. This competitive adsorption in turn is influenced by the nature of the interfacial protein-protein and protein-surfactant interactions. At the most basic level, what drives this competition is that the surfactant-surface interaction is stronger than the interaction of the surface with the protein (or protein-surfactant complex) (Dickinson, 1998 Goff, 1997 Rodriguez Patino et al., 2007 Miller et al., 2008 Kotsmar et al., 2009). 

These structures are interfacial aggregates that are surprisingly different from earlier models, appearing as a result of a compromise between the natural free curvature, as defined by intermolecular interactions, and the constraints imposed by specific surfactant-surface interactions. 

The methodology outlined in Section 2.2 has been used to model surfactant-surface interactions and to design performance chemicals in many industrial applications. The examples are presented in the following sections to illustrate the utility of the proposed methodology. 

In the past few years, a range of solvation dynamics experiments have been demonstrated for reverse micellar systems. Reverse micelles form when a polar solvent is sequestered by surfactant molecules in a continuous nonpolar solvent. The interaction of the surfactant polar headgroups with the polar solvent can result in the formation of a well-defined solvent pool. Many different kinds of surfactants have been used to form reverse micelles. However, the structure and dynamics of reverse micelles created with Aerosol-OT (AOT) have been most frequently studied. AOT reverse micelles are monodisperse, spherical water droplets [32]. The micellar size is directly related to the water volume-to-surfactant surface area ratio defined as the molar ratio of water to AOT,... 

Dimitrios Maroudas, Modeling of Radical-Surface Interactions in the Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition of Silicon Thin Films Sanat Kumar, M. Antonio Floriano, and Athanassiors Z. Panagiotopoulos, Nanostructured Formation and Phase Separation in Surfactant Solutions Stanley I. Sandler, Amadeu K. Sum, and Shiang-Tai Lin, Some Chemical Engineering Applications of Quantum Chemical Calculations... 

The Hamiltonian of a single isolated nanoparticle consists of the magnetic anisotropy (which creates preferential directions of the magnetic moment orientation) and the Zeeman energy (which is the interaction energy between the magnetic moment and an external field). In the ensembles, the nanoparticles are supposed to be well separated by a nonconductive medium [i.e., a ferrofluid in which the particles are coated with a surfactant (surface-active agent)]. The... 

In this situation, the equilibrium thickness at any given height h is determined by the balance between the hydrostatic pressure in the liquid (hpg) and the repulsive pressure in the film, that is n = hpg. Cyril Isenberg gives many beautiful pictures of soap films of different geometries in his book The Science of Soap Films and Soap Bubbles (1992). Sir Isaac Newton published his observations of the colours of soap bubbles in Opticks (1730). This experimental set-up has been used to measure the interaction force between surfactant surfaces, as a function of separation distance or film thickness. These forces are important in stabilizing surfactant lamellar phases and in cell-cell interactions, as well as in colloidal interactions generally. 

This represents the difference in the second adsorption free energy term in Equation 21, i.e. the two terms on the right hand side each represent the change in free energy when a water-surface molecular contact is replaced with a surfactant-surface molecular contact. It is very reasonable to assume that, at close packing, both surfactants adsorb with only their hydrocarbon moieties (or part of these moieties) in direct contact with the surface. Hence, the two surfactants interact with the latex surface with the same strength and the last term in Equation 17 is equal to zero. 

In the preceding section, we emphasized that the surface interaction of metallic particles with liquid molecules is a very important parameter in the dispersion behavior of the sol. Since the surface nature is very sensitive to the surface modification, we can easily regulate it with the use of surfactant. As seen in Figure 9.4.23, almost all metallic particles cannot be dispersed in hexane as a suspension liquid. In this section, we show what kind of surfactant is effective in dispersion. The sample was prepared by the gas flow-cold trap method. We tested three surfactants, dimethyldi-... 

In an OAV emulsion system containing a mixture of surfactant + polysaccharide, the stability behaviour will generally depend on two sets of factors (i) the nature of the surfactant-polysaccharide interactions at the surface of the emulsion droplets, and (ii) the surfactant-polysaccharide interactions in the aqueous medium between the droplets (Dickinson et ah, 1993 Dickinson, 2003 Aoki el al., 2005 Klinkesom et ah, 2004 Chuah et ah, 2009). 

Chen, J., Dickinson, E. (1995). Protein-surfactant interfacial interactions. Part 3. Competitive adsorption of protein + surfactant in emulsions. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 101,77-85. 

Surface Interaction of Calcium and ATP with Phospholipids and Other Surfactants... 

In any evaluation of a remediation scheme utilizing surfactants, the effect of dose on HOC distribution coefficients must be quantified. Very often, only one coefficient value for HOC partitioning to sorbed surfactants has been reported in the literature, presumably because the experimental data covers only the sorption regions where the surfactant molecule interactions dominate at the surface (Nayyar et al., 1994 Park and Jaffe, 1993). However, all of the characteristic sorption regions will develop during an in-situ SEAR application as the surfactant front (i.e., mass transfer zone) advances through the porous medium. Therefore, the relative role ofregional HOC partition coefficients to sorbed surfactant should be considered in any remediation process. Finally, the porosity or solid volume fraction for the particular subsurface system must be taken into account when surfactant sorption is quantified. 

Recent molecular dynamics simulations of water between two surfactant (sodium dodecyl sulfate) layers, reported by Faraudo and Bresme,14 revealed oscillatory behaviors for both the polarization and the electric fields near a surface and that the two fields are not proportional to each other. While the nonmonotonic behavior again invalidated the Gruen—Marcelja model for the polarization, the nonproportionality suggested that a more complex dielectric response of water might, be at the origin of the hydration force. The latter conclusion was also supported by recent molecular dynamics simulations of Far audo and Bresme, who reported interactions between surfactant surfaces with a nonmonotonic dependence on distance.15... 

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